Senior HV Electrical Engineer – Hybrid Dublin Substations

Rent a Recruiter; Leinster; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Training & development

Employee recognition

Wellbeing program

Share schemes

Remote work up to 20 days/year

Job summary

Rent a Recruiter is partnering with a growing global engineering and infrastructure consultancy in Dublin. They seek a Senior HV Electrical Engineer to design high‑voltage substations and lead engineering workstreams across Ireland, the UK and internationally, reporting to the Power team Principal Engineer.

The role offers a hybrid model (3 days in office), exposure to energy storage, HVDC, smart grid projects, and opportunities for professional development and career progression within a

Qualifications

• Degree level required with Chartered Engineer status ideal or in progress.
• HV substation design experience (132kV-400kV) in Ireland/UK contexts.
• Familiar with Irish TSO and DNO standards and processes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to lead technical workstreams and contribute to project delivery.
• Experience in design, delivery and supervision of HV substation solutions (110kV–400kV).

Responsibilities

• Extensive experience in design and owners engineering of high-voltage substations and grid development projects.
• Review HV plant aspects including layouts, earthing, interlocking, busbar calculations, and technical specifications.
• Review and assess detailed designs for compliance with outline design and functional specifications, including assessment of proposed amendments or variations.
• Provide input into or produce aspects of contestable specification packs (schematics, interlocking, SLDs, substation layout drawings) and provide expertise on HV cables, stations and OHL for customer projects.
• Equipment specifications for HV plant and ancillary equipment.
• Providing engineering design input to major electrical power infrastructural development projects through all lifecycle stages from feasibility and front‑end engineering to detailed design, site construction monitoring and commissioning.
• Delivering projects in new technologies such as energy storage, HVDC systems, smart‑grid solutions, waste‑to‑energy and related emerging areas.
• Supporting tendering activities and contributing to technical offers.

Skills

HV Substation Design

Project Leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication

Technical Review & Compliance

Power Systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Rent a Recruiter is partnering with a growing global engineering and infrastructure consultancy in Dublin. They seek a Senior HV Electrical Engineer to design high‑voltage substations and lead engineering workstreams across Ireland, the UK and internationally, reporting to the Power team Principal Engineer.

The role offers a hybrid model (3 days in office), exposure to energy storage, HVDC, smart grid projects, and opportunities for professional development and career progression within a